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1865/07/04
Anderson & Co.
[Carte de visite of unidentified woman]
Unidentified woman. Carte de visite, vignette portrait. Albumen print (Richmond, Virginia: Anderson & Co.).
GLC01896.181
1864/5/29
Disderi, Andre, 1819-1894
[Carte de visite of two unidentified women]
Domestic set piece, two unidentified women [one standing behind one sitting] with pastoral background studying books. Albumen print (Paris: Disderi, Photographe de S. M. L'Empereur"). Inscribed: "For M. Archer with our kind remembrance. London May...
GLC01896.185
1861-1877
Whitaker & Co.
Unidentified woman, vignette portrait. Albumen print (Philadelphia: Whitaker & Co.). Inscribed: "20019".
GLC01896.191
[Carte de visite of Ella Taylor Waring]
Ella Taylor Waring, vignette portrait, hand coloured and outlined in ink. Albumen print (Pollock). Inscribed: "Mrs. Ella Taylor Waring Mrs. Thos. W. Waring]
GLC01896.192
26 July 1781
Knox, Lucy Flucker, 1756-1824
to Henry Knox
Dines with Colonel P. R. [possibly Peter R.] Livingston. Chastises Henry for not writing to her "by every possible opportunity." Remarks on Henry's birthday the previous day, and her birthday the following Thursday. Plans to depart 27 July for...
GLC02437.01091
June 1781
Knox, Henry, 1750-1806
Field artillery under the Marquis De LaFayette, June 1781
Document gives the total of Lafayette's field artillery as 10 six pounders, 2 four pounders, 2 three pounders, and 2 five-and-a-half-inch howitzers. The artillery pieces were both captured and made for the Americans. One of the 6 pounders was taken...
GLC02437.00995
30 June 1781
Strachan, William, 1752-1798
[Return of issues at the Artillery Park]
Taken from the last returns by Lieutenant William Strachan. Docketed by Samuel Shaw, who was likely with Henry Knox at New Windsor, New York. Includes rations drawn by women and children. Originally enclosed with GLC02437.00997.
GLC02437.00996
to Lucy Knox [incomplete]
Knox writes to his wife from Philipsburgh (present-day Sleepy Hollow, New York). "... I have never found any absence from [Lucy] so truly insupportable as the present. I am alone amidst a croud [sic], and unhappy without my companion." Bemoans the...
GLC02437.01000
14 April 1684
Indian Treaty
Indian land sale-Flushing Meadows, NY. MDS by 8 Indians.
GLC08077
02 April 1865
Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865
to Mary Todd Lincoln.
Lincoln's last letter to Mary Lincoln, day before the fall of Richmond, Re: dramatic news of the final collapse of the confederate defenses.
GLC08090
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